Bay Bridge Closure August 28 to September 3

News Articles08/29/2013

Due to the final construction and opening of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge eastern span, the Bay Bridge will be closed from 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, August 28, through 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, September 3.

No buses will operate across the bridge from San Francisco to the East Bay after 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday through the opening on Tuesday morning. Instead, they will operate in the East Bay only by detouring to four BART stations (see table below) to drop off passengers going to San Francisco and pick up passengers coming from San Francisco.

The table below shows the BART station to which each transbay line will detour. San Francisco-bound passengers should be prepared to pay a local AC Transit fare on their transbay bus and then the applicable BART fare to downtown San Francisco. Returning from San Francisco, buses will depart their respective BART stations 20 minutes after their scheduled Transbay Temporary Terminal departure times. Cash-paying passengers can get a BART-to-Bus transfer at the East Bay BART station (before exiting the BART fare gates) to receive a $.25 discount off the local AC Transit fare. Clipper card holders will automatically reive the BART-to-Bus transfer discount.

Keep in mind, it may be more convenient to take local service to the nearest BART station instead of a transbay line to the detour station. We encourage passengers to use one of AC Transit’s online trip-planning features at www.actransit.org, or check out the system map and schedule to determine the most direct route. If you’re not sure which local line(s) serves the nearest BART station, click here for a complete list.